I just can't figure out re-enrolling for second year, I wasn't worried about it at first because I was going to do it through student central once I moved to wagga, but I was just there and I got no real help.

It's a non contact period, Hages is unlikely to reply and I'm afraid he's not really the one to contact anyway, I imagine it's more student central territory, that's what they'd tell you in O-Week anyway, oh well.

You need to go to my.csu.edu.au, log in and on the 'quick links' section on the left, reveal the 'subject info' tab. You will notice an option there roughly half way down that says 'vary my enrolment'. Follow that link, you will be prompted to enter your password, and then you'll choose 'Start', you'll confirm a few details then come to the meat of the matter, subjects. You'll then get the chance to choose a session to enrol in, this should be fairly cut and dried but in case the dates aren't clear, the session code we are about to go into is 201130. Click add subjects. You'll see your transcript and a search bar at the top. You'll need to enter the following subjects;

VFX201 - Digital AnimationMPI220 - Multimedia Authoring Concepts (in the system it is known as 'Author and Design Multimedia')COM123 - Screen Studies

All are obviously internal and through the wagga wagga campus, they should add just fine.

The elective issue is one for you to resolve and of course you'll hear different things from everyone. I personally highly recommend a sound subject if you haven't arleady done VPA106 (there is a follw on subject to this in semester 2 as well, I think it's VPA113...) Though photography was also highly beneficial, VPA104 and PHT114, or 'digital imaging' as it's more photoshop then photography. Consider what will compliment your interests, strengths and weaknesses, if you don't know much about photoshop, the photography course is a great whirlwind tour and preps you nicely for the digital compositing subject you'll do next semester. Actually, you'd be mad not to enter VFX205 next semester without a good knowledge of photoshop, so that's my tip, but then that's just me.

I think photography has some interesting possibilities and I am heading that way. Worth talking to someone in the Photography department about what is in each subject as the subject outlines are pretty vague.

I see there are a couple of illustration subjects, there is a scriptwriting subject, and some of the TV stuff might be good as well... Too many possibilities.

It has a greater concentration on using colour, light, exposure and various other camera/photoshop techniques (and tricks) to get your result. As I remember, if you haven't used the studio before, it's to be used for the second assignment, after you've been shown in general how to use it. If you can get another photography student to help you it may be possible to take some shots, but mostly it's first assessment studio-free, and the second may or may not have been studio compulsory. I'd say it was a worthwhile subject.

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Hey guys, just wondering when it would be possible to get in contact with Hages before term starts. Just wanna clear up with him exactly whats going to happen with me since I need to repeat VFX101 from last year. Not one hundred percent sure whether I still take an elective plus the 2nd year subjects and VFX101 or not. If anyone here has any clues about this it would be appreciated.

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Not 100% sure of your exact situation there KushalaDaora, but you need course co-ordinator approval in order to continue with a subject while lacking a prerequisite, so contact with Hages is definitely a plus. Whether or not he's at the uni is rather hard to judge, but best bet is to send him an email and hope for the best.

As for how many subjects you do, that's up to you. If you're unable to continue with VFX201 due to not completing VFX101, then you may as well launch into the other second year subjects (which I believe are COM123 and MPI220) and an elective. If you believe that you can handle five subjects, go for it, but as most will note, animation are rather heavy subjects to juggle an extra workload.

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